Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (437 mails)

[Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 14:56 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2015-04-30 10:43, Thibaut Verron wrote:
>
> > Just an update on the tests you asked me to run: until now I could
> > not get the live USB to boot (it hangs at some point), and I can't
> > let it heat idle to see what happens, because it reboots after a
> > while. The fan does sound a bit louder, but this is only my
> > inaccurate ear measuring. I had to go to work, I will try
> > troubleshooting why the boot fails this evening, and if I still
> > cannot boot, I'll try to start the live USB with a hot CPU, to see
> > if the fan goes berserk as it should.
>
> I place my laptop on a... "thing" with a largish fan inside, which can
> plug to one of the USB sockets of the laptop, or to a mains-usb
> converter (I do the later). It keeps the base of the laptop cool.
>
> The internal fan cools well only the CPU. Ram and HD can get quite hot.
>
>
> If I can't do this, I place the laptop on 1 centimeter pegs, not just
> on a table, so that air can circulate.

Hm, I didn't make my desktop box, I bought it :)  Much more powerful
than lappy on stilts, and easier to get at the dust bunnies inside it.

        -Mike

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